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A hopeful young actress takes part in a research program that maps and adjusts emotional associations, then suddenly declares love for a wealthy suitor, shattering the plans of an admirer who had been courting her. The admirer, an analytical engineer, grows suspicious of the psychiatrist running the experiments and of the company behind the apparatus, and seeks to determine whether artificial alteration of affect explains the abrupt change. The story examines how technology and commercial interests can reshape personal attachment and raises ethical questions about manipulating feelings and consent.

Transcriber Notes:

This etext was produced from Science Fiction Stories 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

Obvious punctuation errors have been repaired.

page 17 original: on the mantel: a midle-aged woman and two young men

replacement: on the mantel: a middle-aged woman and two young men

page 20 original: inpulses corresponding to your reactions of hate, fear, and disgust into

replacement: impulses corresponding to your reactions of hate, fear, and disgust into

page 25 original: Another woman? Or merely to be reconciled, artifically, to an otherwise- intolerable situation?

replacement: Another woman? Or merely to be reconciled, artificially, to an otherwise- intolerable situation?

page 26 original: "As even, as we'll ever get, I suppose," said Fraser.

"Well, I was interested," said Fraser.

"I wish you'd trust me," said Kennedy with a hint of wistfulness. "I'd have done the job honestly; you didn't have to watch."

replacement: "As even, as we'll ever get, I suppose," said Fraser.

"I wish you'd trust me," said Kennedy with a hint of wistfulness. "I'd have done the job honestly; you didn't have to watch."

"Well, I was interested," said Fraser.

page 29 original: "I don't know. We'll settle that later. Okay, God, here's the phone-number

replacement: "I don't know. We'll settle that later. Okay, God, here's the phone number (no hyphen used on page 10)